Welp, Vevo Just Got Hacked
Vevo, the joint venture between Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Abu Dhabi Media, Warner Music Group, and Alphabet Inc. (Google’s parent company), was just hacked Gizmodo reports. Roughly 3.12TB worth of internal files have been posted online, and a couple of the documents reviewed by Gizmodo appear sensitive.
Yet another trove of sensitive US voter records has leaked
Each record contained details on voters, including names, addresses, dates of birth, their ethnic identity, whether an individual is married, and the individual's voting preferences, the magazine ZDNet writes. A cache of voter records on over a half-million Americans has been found online.
Islington Council fined for major data breach
A London council has been fined £70,000 after it accidentally published a cache of personal data including medical details, cheques, and even one person’s prison record, the Evening Standard (https://www.infowatch.ru/analytics/leaks_monitoring/18313) reports.
400GB of personal tourist data leaked in MoneyBack data breach
MoneyBack appears to have run an insecure database, containing over 400GB of data, all of which could potentially have been easily accessed by hackers. Credit card data, passports, travel information and more of nearly half a million people were exposed, The International Business Times reports.
Equifax hack exposes data of 143 million Americans
The credit reporting agency Equifax said Thursday that hackers gained access to sensitive personal data — Social Security numbers, birth dates and home addresses — for up to 143 million Americans, a major cyber security breach at a firm that serves as one of the three major clearinghouses for Americans' credit histories, The Chicago Tribune reports.
Taringa hack: 28M user records stolen from social site
More than 28 million records linked to Taringa, a Reddit-like social networking website popular in Latin America, have reportedly been stolen by hackers. Firm confirms 'external attack that compromised the security of our databases', The International Business Times reports.
Instagram hack exposes millions of accounts
A group of hackers used a bug earlier this week to scrape the phone numbers and email addresses of six million Instagram accounts and are now selling that information on the web, the TechCrunch writes.
Yahoo must face litigation by data breach victims
A U.S. judge said Yahoo must face nationwide litigation brought on behalf of well over 1 billion users who said their personal information was compromised in three massive data breaches, The Fortune reports. Wednesday night's decision from U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, Calif., was a setback for efforts by Verizon, which paid $4.76 billion for Yahoo 's Internet business in June, to limit potential liability.
CeX alerted as hackers breach 2M customer credentials
Hi Tech pawnbroker CeX has announced a breach of its online systems which could expose details of 2m users, The Inquirer (
Massive password leak amplifies IoT security concerns
Security researchers have unearthed a sprawling list of login credentials that allows anyone on the Internet to take over home routers and more than 1,700 "Internet of things" devices and make them part of a destructive botnet, arstechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/leak-of-1700-valid-passwords-could-make-the-iot-mess-much-worse) reports.
